Chihayaburu Mikami no yama no sakakiba wa sakae zo masaru sue no yo made ni - Shui Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

ちはやぶるみかみの山の榊葉は
栄えぞまさる末の世までに

Roma-ji: Chihayaburu Mikami no yama no sakakiba wa sakae zo masaru sue no yo made ni
English Translation: On Mikami's slopes,
mighty home of the august god,
the sakaki leaves
flourish and grow ever more,
on and on to distant ages.
Meaning: The sakaki leaves on Mount Mikami, where the mighty god dwells, flourish ever more, on into ages far to come.
Commentary: Book Ten Kagura Songs 601

Headnote: "Fūzoku songs for the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Anna: Mount Mikami"
The poem sings that the sakaki leaves on Mount Mikami, where the god dwells, will flourish ever more into ages to come. Pivoting the place name Mikami on "mikami," the august god, it celebrates the reign's prosperity by laying it over the flourishing evergreen sakaki on the god's mountain. It is the first of three poems on Mount Mikami, together with the next poems, 602 and 603.
The headnote, "Fūzoku songs for the Great Thanksgiving Festival of the first year of Anna," shows that the poem was offered at the Great Thanksgiving Festival held in the first year of Anna upon the accession of Emperor Reizei. At this festival, poems working in the place names of the provinces chosen as Yuki and Suki were offered, and from here to 608 poems follow whose topics are the names of mountains and shores in those provinces.
The author, written as "Yoshinobu," is Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu. He served as chief priest of the Ise Shrine and, as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber, took part in compiling the Gosenshū. He is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.

First line, "chihayaburu," is a pillow word introducing "kami," modifying the "kami" in "mikami" in the second line. It is the same pillow word as the first lines of 596 and 597.
Second line, "Mikami no yama no," is a pivot word: "Mikami" means Mount Mikami in Ōmi and "mikami," the august god.
Third line, "sakakiba wa," means "the sakaki leaves," using the same word as the first lines of the opening poems, 576 and 577. It is the same line as the third line of the next poem, 602, "sakakiba wa."
Fourth line, "sakae zo masaru," means "flourish ever more," with the binding particle "zo" resolved by the attributive "masaru."
Final line, "sue no yo made ni," means "on into ages to come," placed in inverted order to strengthen the fourth line.
Author: Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Source: Shui Wakashu
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